Ákos Maróy

Aero Glass

über das Thema:

Head Orientation Tracking in an Aircraft Cockpit Environment

Zeit: Wed 18.3.2015, 10:30, 60 Minuten
Ort: S2 Z74

Zusammenfassung

A Head-Mounted Display-based Augmented Reality solution such as Aero Glass
needs to track the orientation of the users head to be able to display AR in a usable
fashion. While off-the-shelf Head-Mounted Displays such as the Epson Moverio BT-
200 or Osterhout ODG R6 / X6 contain IMUs, tracking via an IMU is imprecise
mainly because of gyro drift. In an aviation context, neither the accelerometer nor the
magnetometer cannot be used to offset gyro drift with sufficient results. Thus optical
tracking approaches are investigated that allow for determining the users head
orientation in relation to the cockpit, which, combined with a knowledge of the
aircraft orientation, allows to offset gyro drift. Several optical tracking approaches are
investigated: 'inside out', where a camera on the head-mounted display is used, using
markerless SLAM-based tracking, tracking markers in front of and above the users
head. An 'outside-in' approach is also investigated where an external camera is
tracking the users head by tracking IR LEDs.

Vortragender

Ákos Maróy is the founder of Aero Glass, an Augmented Reality solution for aircraft
pilots. Ákos has a background in software engineering, has founded several IT
companies & startups in the past, being still involved in the outsourced software
development shop EU Edge. Ákos has a media- and bio-art background, having
exhibited at various venues, including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Prix Ars
Electronica Festival, the NTT InterCommunication Center in Tokyo and the
Yamaguchi Center for Art & Media in Japan, as a member of the Tokyo-based art
collective doubleNegatives Architecture. Ákos is the co-founder of atlatszo.hu, an
investigative journalism NGO based in his native Hungary.